Hope its okay to repost this here. I pulled it out of a closed thread because its one of the best posts Ive seen on ECF in awhile and I think good general advice for everyone (myself included).
This was posted by Rolygate in response to someone asking if the mods were doing enough here.
This was posted by Rolygate in response to someone asking if the mods were doing enough here.
This is more complex than it may appear at first.
This forum is ultra-busy, there are 5,000 posts a day right now*, 150,000 a month. 2,500 online at times. One post a second at peak times.
* edit: just been told it's 12,000 posts a day at the moment. Wow.
We have about 20 staff who all put in time when they can, precious time away from their work, life and families.
They just can't cover all the posts, they might only see 5% of them or something. We absolutely rely on members to PM us with anything they see that needs fixing.
Really bad advice gets moved to the Not Advisable forum as a result. But I do agree that a lot of advice given here (as on many forums for that matter) is not A1. How do we fix that? We can't. The main reason is that many vapers are extremely enthusiastic and committed, and if you tell them they are giving bad advice, it doesn't come off well.
ECF can't fix this issue, but members can: if you see something that you know is wrong, then post a better answer yourself. If you can't do that, you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Just be polite please, and add something like: "In my experience the previous advice is incorrect, I find that if you do this, the device will leak badly and operate poorly. Instead, you could try this: xxxx xxxx xxxx. YMMV naturally".
For the last two days the Mods have been dealing with a troll attack by people who want to destroy the forum, and have had to ban 150 multiple spam accounts. This is important work and takes a lot of time to resolve (if you ban a genuine member, then it adds to the problems). So we rely on members to help. If they don't, things don't go as well as they might.
Please ask yourself, "How can I help? How can I be part of the solution, not part of the problem?"
Another thing that members can do is, if they see the same issue coming up again and again, write a tute on how to fix it. Then decide where to post the tute, or ask a Mod's advice. There must be a lot of common problems that get asked about time and time again. If it's something I know about, and know I can help with, that's what I do. Everyone has a different knowledge area though. I don't have a clue about clearos, so I wouldn't know if advice given is good or bad. But if you ask me about APV safety issues, engineering choices, and good/bad design, then OK I'm there. So it needs people who definitely know the score about an issue to write a tute, or to correct advice that is not helpful.
Bottom line: think if you can help somehow. That's what makes the ECF wheels go round. It's why this is the best ecig resource in the world.
Many thanks
This forum is ultra-busy, there are 5,000 posts a day right now*, 150,000 a month. 2,500 online at times. One post a second at peak times.
* edit: just been told it's 12,000 posts a day at the moment. Wow.
We have about 20 staff who all put in time when they can, precious time away from their work, life and families.
They just can't cover all the posts, they might only see 5% of them or something. We absolutely rely on members to PM us with anything they see that needs fixing.
Really bad advice gets moved to the Not Advisable forum as a result. But I do agree that a lot of advice given here (as on many forums for that matter) is not A1. How do we fix that? We can't. The main reason is that many vapers are extremely enthusiastic and committed, and if you tell them they are giving bad advice, it doesn't come off well.
ECF can't fix this issue, but members can: if you see something that you know is wrong, then post a better answer yourself. If you can't do that, you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Just be polite please, and add something like: "In my experience the previous advice is incorrect, I find that if you do this, the device will leak badly and operate poorly. Instead, you could try this: xxxx xxxx xxxx. YMMV naturally".
For the last two days the Mods have been dealing with a troll attack by people who want to destroy the forum, and have had to ban 150 multiple spam accounts. This is important work and takes a lot of time to resolve (if you ban a genuine member, then it adds to the problems). So we rely on members to help. If they don't, things don't go as well as they might.
Please ask yourself, "How can I help? How can I be part of the solution, not part of the problem?"
Another thing that members can do is, if they see the same issue coming up again and again, write a tute on how to fix it. Then decide where to post the tute, or ask a Mod's advice. There must be a lot of common problems that get asked about time and time again. If it's something I know about, and know I can help with, that's what I do. Everyone has a different knowledge area though. I don't have a clue about clearos, so I wouldn't know if advice given is good or bad. But if you ask me about APV safety issues, engineering choices, and good/bad design, then OK I'm there. So it needs people who definitely know the score about an issue to write a tute, or to correct advice that is not helpful.
Bottom line: think if you can help somehow. That's what makes the ECF wheels go round. It's why this is the best ecig resource in the world.
Many thanks
Last edited by rolygate; Today at 04:45 PM.
